Mid Week Charts Show Hallelujah To Top The Christmas Charts
December 17, 2008 by Ewan
But will the true X-Factor belong to Jeff Buckley?
Midweek charts show, unsurprisingly, that X-factor winner Alexandra Burke is on course for the Christmas Number One with her version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. She’s already outstripped Leona Lewis with the fastest selling download single, but as physical copies hit the shops today it won’t be the 100% download number one that Lewis has at the moment.
What’s really interesting is the closest challenger. The late Jeff Buckley, and his cover of the same track from his “Grace” album. On-line fans of Buckley are flooding MySpace, Facebook and YouAllLoveMeDotCom with fan pages and campaigns to buy Buckley’s version online and somehow claim back the song (and the festive top of the charts slot) from Simon Cowell et al.
Buckley is on course to claim the number two spot, but there are still four full shopping days till the chart is declared, so it really is game on
Cohen himself is due to earn around £1,000,000 as the writer of the song, and can also be proud that his version (you know, the original) is also charting midweek at 34, and I’d expect that to climb into the Top 30 by Sunday.
(Hat tip to Digital Spy for the Cohen income numbers)
* Actually there is no network called YouAllLoveMeDotCom, but it sounds like it should exist with a name like that.
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